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Old 30th Dec 2010, 17:27
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Planemike
 
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This aircraft is still extant, preserved in the Musee de L'Air at le Bourget. It is the first rotary winged a/c to have flown across the English Channel.

Interesting to see a photgraph of it at Hucknall. Some of the hangars in the background are still standing, within the Rolls Royce works.

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